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The MOOC is a Modern Marvel for the 1950′s Company Man!
Today’s Company Man has to know certain things in order to please the boss and keep the organization running smoothly. Gee whiz! These MOOC’s sure are nifty. Simply punch the right buttons from the...
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What is Mythology?
Mythology is not a canon of lies, though it is never true. Or at least the products of mythological thinking are not true. Stories never are. Even true ones. Non-fiction is impossible. A myth, then,...
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What is Mythology? (Part 5)
In Part 1, I attempted to explain the complexities of the term “myth” and the difficulties of defining it. Largely, this was a riff on the contemporary understanding of “myth” as “false,” as in, “It’s...
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What is Mythology? (Part 6)
In Part 5 I tried to be a bit more straightforward in my definition of mythology. Being straightforward is kind of a drag, and if all you ever did was sit around creating, compiling, and arguing...
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What is Mythology? (Part 9: The Trouble with Poetry)
I enjoy the anthology I have been assigning for my Mythology course, World Mythology: An Anthology of Great Myths and Epics. It covers myths from across the globe and is filled with wonderfully...
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What is Mythology? (Part 10: A New Myth for an Old Planet)
I ended Part 9 by calling for a transdisciplinary approach to mythology, which begs two questions: 1) What the hell does transdisciplinary mean? Big word, simple meaning: going beyond the limitations...
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The Teaching-Learning Paradox
In an earlier post, I discussed the Educator’s Catch-22, which demonstrates the absurdity of trying to teach intrinsic motivation in environments (i.e. schools) built on extrinsic motivation. Now, in...
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Should Only Rock Stars Make Online Lectures?
After reading David Byrne’s recent ode to Iowa (in which he recounts the state’s socialist utopian roots and observes that Iowa “may not be cool, but it might be beyond cool. Here among the winding...
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Vlog Your Children Well
Below is my attempt to create an online lecture based on the advice given by Tad Suiter in the video I posted here. Essentially, by learning from the style of effective vloggers, Suiter recommends to...
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Oral Literature (Part 1)
I made another video attempting to follower the “vlogger” approach (see my previous two posts). This is the first part of a two-part series on Oral Literature as it applies to my Mythology course.
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The Teaching-Learning Paradox Revisited (Part 1)
A simple syllogism to begin: 1. All people are ideologues*. 2. Teachers are people. 3. You know what goes here. If you reject the premise, you probably want to stop reading. You are the problem. If you...
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The Teaching-Learning Paradox Revisited (Part 2)
If the conclusions in Part 1 are correct, it does not really matter which teaching method instructors use. Lecture? Small-group? Discussion? Tutorials? Online? Some combination of these? It makes no...
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The Teaching-Learning Paradox Revisited (Part 3: Solving the Paradox)
Brief summary of Parts 1 and 2: In Part 1, I revisited a puzzling 1968 study (supported by follow-up articles) that concluded teaching method has no impact on final exam performance. In Part 2, I...
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Nine Rules for the Education Apocalypse
1. Don’t fear the Apocalypse. Emily Dickinson knew she was in the presence of poetry when she could feel physically the top of her head coming off. This was not a metaphor. It was a mystical...
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